NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/aus/aarnet/1447

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From: [e-mail] (Craig Dewick)
Newsgroups: aus.aarnet
Subject: apparent censorship of some newgroups
Date: 23 Jan 1993 16:53:35 +1100
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Summary: big brother raises it's ugly head again
Keywords: big brother


This has probably already been thrashed out, but why is it that certain
newsgroups are being prevented from reaching our shores?

I don't need to mention the groups in question, but they relate to a certain
topic that some bozos seem to regard as taboo, mentally degrading, and as
'polluting' the network.

I have only one comment - this 'Big Brother' attitude of those who have control
of AARnet should not be able to restrict the newsgroups that are available.
As an underlying link to Internet, this automatically consigns AARnet
administrators to follow Internet policy, which is that ALL information should
be freely available to ALL users of the system. It's obvious that AARnet's
admin people believe otherwise.

The federal goverment already tries to control us enough. Now they're trying to
condition us against reading newsgroups containing articles in socially
sensitive topics. So what? This is supposed to be a democracy we live in.
Perhaps the damn 'thought police' have infiltrated Canberra as well, we might as
well live in a communist country if this sort of net-censoring continues.
--
 Craig Dewick, Station Master, Possum Power Tank BBS. [phone] (ringback).
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